JohnDoe58884 1 Posted October 26, 2023 Posted October 26, 2023 So the issue is, whenever I try to press the back button, it either brings me back to the home page, or quits the application completely. Whereas I just want to go one step back to the previous note, or maybe to the search field. But when I press it, it most of the time quits the application. That's a 100% bug, and it needs to be solved. Please address this issue. 1
Evernote Expert agsteele 3,075 Posted October 26, 2023 Evernote Expert Posted October 26, 2023 The behaviour of the back button has been acknowledged and added to things to be addressed as reported in another thread. 1
JohnDoe58884 1 Posted October 26, 2023 Author Posted October 26, 2023 1 hour ago, agsteele said: The behaviour of the back button has been acknowledged and added to things to be addressed as reported in another thread. Could you please share the link to this thread?
Evernote Expert agsteele 3,075 Posted October 26, 2023 Evernote Expert Posted October 26, 2023 I don't have time to search just now. You could search for back button or similar.
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 4,014 Posted October 27, 2023 Level 5 Posted October 27, 2023 14 hours ago, JohnDoe58884 said: So the issue is, whenever I try to press the back button, it either brings me back to the home page, or quits the application completely. Whereas I just want to go one step back to the previous note, or maybe to the search field. But when I press it, it most of the time quits the application. That's a 100% bug, and it needs to be solved. Please address this issue. This is 100% something that various Android apps do, e.g. the Wikipedia app. It's the intended function, not a bug. The question is whether the function is a good idea. Evernote uses 2 back buttons: its own at top left, which does back up one step, and the system back button at the bottom, which generally quits the app. I think it can be a useful differentiation of functions. But a number of other users agree with you, and if you search the forums you can find those threads, and the statement that Evernote is going to be "fixing" this (which I don't think is broken in the first place, but never mind).
Roy Douglas 66 Posted December 8, 2023 Posted December 8, 2023 As a user of Evernote for several years, I can tell you that this change in behavior is *new*. So, whether it's by design or not, it's a change from how it has behaved for several years. That to me is a bug. I expect the back button to go back to the previous state, not exit the application completely. And that's how it has behaved for years and only recently changed. 3
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 4,014 Posted December 8, 2023 Level 5 Posted December 8, 2023 7 hours ago, Roy Douglas said: As a user of Evernote for several years, I can tell you that this change in behavior is *new*. So, whether it's by design or not, it's a change from how it has behaved for several years. That to me is a bug. I expect the back button to go back to the previous state, not exit the application completely. And that's how it has behaved for years and only recently changed. Respectfully, I think a bug is usually described as something that does not work as it is intended to do. A change is not a bug, just a change. They decided to alter the intentional behavior, and it works as such. I can imagine situations in which it would be useful to have both options (back and exit) available. We just have to get used to it.
Roy Douglas 66 Posted December 8, 2023 Posted December 8, 2023 Ok. Bug or not, I disagree with their "decision" (if that's what it was). If I want to close the app and go to the home screen I'll press the home button. I should be able to go back one screen by pressing the back button. The back button shouldn't do the same thing as the home button 2
Level 5 PinkElephant 9,015 Posted December 8, 2023 Level 5 Posted December 8, 2023 A typical Android-ish discussion, about an user interface that is hardly standardized at all, given all the skins and OS-extensions the different makers add to their flavor of Android. And then its update hell, devices with EN installed reaching from Android 9 to Android 14, if I followed it correctly. This spans 6 years of OS development. So I don’t think this can be decided. I happily continue with iOS: One back button top left, that does what I expect it to do. Done ✅ 1
Solution matej1990 199 Posted January 10 Solution Posted January 10 It's funny that it's always Evernote that has some very weird Android implementations and decisions. I do not recall when was the last time that back button in some app behaved like currently in Evernote. 1
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